Notices by Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com), page 7
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Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2017 05:05:50 UTC 
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@archaeme @moonman So much of that piece of shit is designed to make it's network look bigger than it actually is. Maybe the dev has a small penis. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2017 17:19:39 UTC
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@takeshitakenji Not going to say no if other people patch things if the patch seems sound but I am not spending my already limited and valuable time working around someone who is intentionally creating broken, malfunctioning code. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2017 17:05:47 UTC
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@takeshitakenji I find it personally kind of amusing, as I cut down more and more on GS' bloat in postActiv as I can, Mastodon is finding more and more ways to add it.
I don't have the notice to hand, but someone said "Its pretty clear there's the well-standardized way to do things, and then there's the Mastodon way to do things" - I find that pretty true in my experience. Basically any time there's problems Gargron finds a way to try to pin it on GNU social when it so often comes down to him not following the standard ways to do it. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2017 17:02:23 UTC
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@takeshitakenji Without a conversation-uri identifier, how would you even devise a means to poll for missing notices efficiently?
Then again as has already been demonstrated, Mastodon isn't too worried about efficiency. It's needed more hardware thrown at it every time more than two users sign up in a day. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2017 09:24:37 UTC
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@bob @andlabs @twryst Wasn't facebook basically made for Zuckerberg to harvest images of women? -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2017 04:28:42 UTC
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"Researchers at Stanford and Princeton have succeeded in identifying 70% of web users by comparing their web-browsing history to publicly available information on social networks. The study "De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks" [PDF] found that it was possible to reattach identities to 374 sets of apparently anonymous browsing histories simply by following the connections between links shared on Twitter feeds and the likelihood that a user would favor personal recommendations over abstract web browsing."
What you discuss publicly can and often will be used against you. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2017 22:26:24 UTC
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"When Google popped out Chrome 56 at the end of January it was keen to remind us it's making the web safer by flagging non-HTTPS sites. But Google made little effort to publicise another feature that's decidedly less friendly to privacy, because it lets websites ask about users' Bluetooth devices and harvest information from them through the browser."
If you think google gives a shit about privacy or security you are sorely mistaken. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 09:41:15 UTC
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@nerthos Oh, I agree. It's a particular trend with the "tumblr" crowd that most transgender people I know actually don't like either. It's one thing to like, intentionally misgender people to piss them off, that's being a bit shit, but it's another to like, make a genuine mistake and not mean something malicious by it, and still ascribe a negative context to it. You have to be understanding of others, if you want them to be understanding of you.
I get a lot of flak myself for not respecting the genderfluid/more than two genders thing, though. I should think, if you're genuinely transitioning, you would desire to be identified as the gender you're transitioning to, not some in-between state. People who insist on some special pronouns tend to out themselves as the ones that are seeking special snowflake status rather than those transitioning because of a genuine medical need. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 09:37:13 UTC
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@nerthos Well, when it's the treatment proscribed by a proper physician for a properly-diagnosed Gender Identity Disorder, I have no problems with it.
Where I get a lot dodgier is when people just shop around for a doctor that will give them it anyways, or they just take hormones without supervision.
The term for the latter in the medical community although many consider it a slur is "trans-trenders" They tend to be people that just want the social credit or status afforded to transgender people. You'll notice that almost all of that variety are male-to-female transgenders - it's almost as if we've given women a more privileged place in society and people desire that special treatment.
But where people are getting it as a proper medical treatment I have zero problems with it. I wouldn't have considered it myself if I did. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2017 04:52:28 UTC
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@mangeurdenuage A lot of time they assume these kinds of things couldn't happen to them, and its that assumption that's usually exactly what makes them vulnerable. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2017 19:28:17 UTC
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@bob I think the important thing to realize is that while the social pressure to not have backdoors keeps programmers honest, it doesn't make bad programmers, or even good programmers who get a bit sloppy, more secure. Just less likely to want to be a toadie. IMO. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2017 11:50:53 UTC
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Protest sign in London: "Trump is not my president"
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Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2017 18:26:09 UTC
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Public service announcement https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/102787 -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2017 14:40:04 UTC
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For anyone looking at running their own prosody: avoid using the sql storage module until they fix it. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2017 04:35:15 UTC
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"This feels like a great clone of the thing we left because it's shit"
Maybe ... think through that statement somewhat. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2017 16:13:31 UTC
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@t54r4n1 Exclamation points are the fediverse convention to denote a group of users, such as !fediverse or !gnusocial
I don't believe Mastodon supports this. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2017 14:54:25 UTC
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@chris There is an alternative implementation at fediverse.org that I prefer, personally. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2017 20:27:30 UTC
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The !gnusocial and !postactiv groups do not exist as an easy means of promotion. If you kind of want to be like "hey guys, I have a question" or just get the attention of everyone, I'd argue that's more what the !fediverse group is about. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2017 16:03:20 UTC
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https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/96365 -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2016 18:02:19 UTC
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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us-then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
- Carl Sagan
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